Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Chanticleers, Panthers, and Pelicans Find New Home Over the Air Waves Beginning Monday, March 5th

Chanticleers, Panthers, and Pelicans Find New Home Over the Air Waves Beginning Monday, March 5th

Myrtle Beach, SC - On March 5, 2012 sports fans will have two options on the Grand Strand for receiving their sports news and increased coverage will allow for more play-by- play to be heard across a wider listening area from Brunswick to Georgetown Counties.

ESPN Radio, most recently known on the dial as 93.9 ‘The Team’ is moving from the 6,000 watt signal on WJXY to a 12,000 watt signal on WSEA 100.3 FM. Listeners will continue to hear ESPN Radio’s signature national shows in Mike & Mike in the Morning (6 a.m. - 10 a.m.) and The Herd with Colin Cowherd (10 a.m. - 1 p.m.). Local product, “The Drive” with Aaron Marks will continue from 4:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, but listeners will notice a stark difference in the early afternoons and evenings.

From 1:00 until 4:00 p.m. Grand Strand sports radio fans have been used to hearing the Dan Patrick Show, a product distributed by Premier Radio Networks and FOX Sports Radio. The show has been aired on tape delay as it airs live from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. EST across the FOX Sports Radio network. The Dan Patrick Show will now fall in its rightful place as the headline show of the brand new, FOX Sports Radio 1050 owned and operated by Cumulus Media, the same radio group with ownership of ESPN 100.3 ‘The Team’.

In addition to The Dan Patrick Show, FOX Sports Radio 1050 will also air Jim Rome from 12:00 until 3:00 p.m. daily, and will pick up local play by play all around the area.

The “Scott Van Pelt Show” will take its place in the live time slot from 1:00 until 4:00 p.m. every afternoon on ESPN Radio 100.3.

Cumulus Media Sports Director, Aaron Marks, will take on the role of programming both ESPN Radio 100.3 and FOX Sports 1050 to bring all of the nation’s top sports talk programs to the Grand Strand and provide more local sports coverage than ever before.

We are thrilled with the addition of FOX Sports Radio to our cluster of stations. If there has been one complaint about our station I have heard since I started here last July, it is that Dan Patrick is a great show but doesn’t sound good unless it runs live”, says Marks.

Marks goes on to comment, “…the additional station will also allow us to provide the proper coverage to all of our local and regional colleges and professional teams. Every team can have a place to call home for all of their games and we’ll be able to add even more play-by-play than ever before at the high school, college, and pro level.”

The Myrtle Beach Pelicans, an Advanced “A” Affiliate of the Texas Rangers, will now call FOX Sports 1050 their home for every home, road, and post-season game. Games will also be streamed through a new website being developed for FOX Sports 1050.

The Carolina Panthers, a long standing partner of ESPN the Team, have renewed their agreement for an additional two years and all games; preseason, regular and post-season will be heard on the new ESPN Radio 100.3.

Coastal Carolina Football, Basketball, and Baseball will continue to air across the flagship station for the Chanticleer Sports Network. The Chanticleers will continue its relationship with Cumulus with all games airing on ESPN Radio 100.3.

South Carolina Gamecock baseball can also be heard on the stations. The two time defending national champions will air 70% of their games on FOX Sports Radio 1050.

Cumulus will now have the opportunity to increase play-by-play coverage on a local level, as well.

With the additional station and stronger signal, we hope to take advantage and bring more local sports to the air. We want to increase our high school and college coverage along the Grand Strand and this new set up will allow us to do that,” says Marks.

Currently there is one daily sports talk show in “The Drive” along with two weekly shows on ESPN Radio 100.3. “The Inside Pitch” airs on Saturday mornings from March - November and “Grand Strand Golf Weekly” airs on Sunday mornings year round. Adding more local and regional talk shows is another goal that will likely become a reality very soon.

It’s in the works,” says Marks, “we will not change anything in our daily national line up between 6 a.m. and 4 p.m. on ESPN or FOX… but on evenings and weekends anything can happen now. Stay tuned.”


For comments or questions contact:
Aaron Marks
Sports Director
ESPN Radio 100.3
FOX Sports 1050
Office: 843-357-8647

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

CCU Football Announces 2012 Football Schedule

Coastal Carolina University Chanticleers

2012 Football Schedule
(as of Feb. 8, 2012)
OPPONENTS and/or DATES SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Date Day Opponent Site Time/Series

Sept. 1 Sat. NORTH CAROLINA A&T Conway, S.C. TBA
Brooks Stadium Coastal Leads 3-0

Sept. 8 Sat. at Furman Greenville, S.C. TBA
Paladin Stadium Coastal Leads 2-1

Sept. 15 Sat. EASTERN KENTUCKY Conway, S.C. TBA
— Family Weekend — Brooks Stadium First Meeting

Sept. 22 Sat. at Toledo Toledo, Ohio TBA
Glass Bowl First Meeting

Sept. 29 Sat. at Appalachian State Boone, N.C. TBA
Kidd Brewer Stadium ASU Leads 2-0

Oct. 6 Sat. — O P E N —

Oct. 13 Sat. STONY BROOK * Conway, S.C. TBA
— Hall of Fame Weekend — Brooks Stadium SBU leads 4-0

Oct. 20 Sat. at VMI * Lexington, Va. TBA
Alunmi Memorial Field Coastal leads 7-2

Oct. 27 Sat. LIBERTY * Conway, S.C. TBA
—Homecoming — Brooks Stadium Liberty leads 5-4

Nov. 3 Sat. at Gardner-Webb * Boiling Springs, N.C. TBA
Spangler Stadium Coastal leads 7-2

Nov. 10 Sat. at Presbyterian * Clinton, S.C. TBA
Bailey Memorial Stadium Coastal leads 4-1

Nov. 17 Sat. CHARLESTON SOUTHERN * Conway, S.C. TBA
—Senior Day — Brooks Stadium Coastal leads 6-3


Nov. 24 Sat. NCAA Division I Football Championship 1st Round Campus Site TBA

Dec. 1 Sat. NCAA Division I Football Championship Round of 16 Campus Site TBA

Dec. 8 Sat. NCAA Division I Football Championship Quarterfinals Campus Site TBA

Dec. 14-15 Fri.-Sat. NCAA Division I Football Championship Semifinals Campus Site TBA

TBA NCAA Division I Football Championship Frisco, Texas TBA
Pizza Hut Park


BOLD — Home Games
* — Big South Conference Game